The call aims are the following:

· to provide the necessary knowledge to build the health and care of the future. This includes addressing several dimensions of health and care systems such as quality, safety, efficiency, effectiveness, accessibility, sustainability, economy, ethics and resilience in reorganised health and care settings. By providing this knowledge, the call aims to support the development of new and innovative solutions that can address the current and future challenges facing health and care systems.

· to support the implementation of innovative solutions on a larger scale. This includes identifying and promoting the adoption and transferability of evidence-based practices that have already been proven to be effective in some contexts in addressing the challenges facing health and care systems.

Proposals will be rejected if they:

· have a predominantly pre-clinical /bio-medical component,

· are purely epidemiological studies mapping the extent of and causal factors behind illnesses, without a focus on solutions, models or implementation in the health and care systems.

· solely concern social /welfare services and do not address issues in the health and care services.

· solely concern development of new technological solutions, without a focus on integration of the solutions, models or implementation in the health and care systems.

This is a call for collaborative, transnational research, and innovation actions. Applied research, and implementation research, developing, piloting, and testing are within the scope of the call. Projects demonstrating proof of concept(s), validation of concepts or solutions, and demonstrations of solutions in relevant health and care settings, replication in other settings are also within scope.

Each consortium submitting a proposal must be comprised of a minimum of three eligible and a maximum of nine eligible partners (excluding collaborators; see in the call text) from at least three different countries participating in the call. In addition, no more than three consortium partners can be from the same country. On the other hand, an applicant may only be project coordinator of one project proposal. Lastly, collaborators are self-funded partners: i.e. partners that are not requesting funds in this Joint Transnational Call provided by one of the participating funding organisations and that are fully self-financed partners, bringing their own secured budget into the project.

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